2015 Code of Alabama
Title 19 - FIDUCIARIES AND TRUSTS.
Chapter 3A - ALABAMA PRINCIPAL AND INCOME ACT.
Article 3 - Apportionment at Beginning and End of Income Interest.
Section 19-3A-301 - When right to income begins and ends.
(a) An income beneficiary is entitled to net income from the date on which the income interest begins. An income interest begins on the date specified in the terms of the trust or, if no date is specified, then on the date an asset becomes subject to a trust or a successive income interest.
(b) An asset becomes subject to a trust at the following times:
(1) In the case of an asset that is transferred to a trust during the transferor's life, on the date such asset is transferred to the trust;
(2) In the case of an asset that becomes subject to a trust by reason of a will, on the date of a testator's death, even if there is an intervening period of administration of the testator's estate; or
(3) In the case of an asset that is transferred to a fiduciary by a third party because of the individual's death, on the date of an individual's death.
(c) An asset becomes subject to a successive income interest on the day after the preceding income interest ends, as determined under subsection (d), even if there is an intervening period of administration to wind up the preceding income interest.
(d) An income interest ends on the day before an income beneficiary dies or another terminating event occurs, or on the last day of a period during which there is no beneficiary to whom a fiduciary may distribute income.
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